The Weary Blues Poem Tone

The next line is “Or fester like a sore-- And then run?” This is another rhetorical question that is used to answer the first question. Imagine that you have a sore on your arm. You want it to become dry so that it will heal quickly and correctly, but instead the sore starts to fester or run, this means that the sore must have become infected. This will take much longer to heal now. If your dream become infected by a setback you are going to have to wait longer to achieve your dream. Once you get sick and tired of that setback you might want to fight back against. Like how our body fights against that infected sore. Hughes uses another simile with “fester like a sore.” This is also imagery because it makes you picture what a fester sore looks like on your body.
Hughes then writes, “Does it stink like rotten meat?” This is a piece of imagery. There is a racoon that died in the air vents while a family is out of town. When they arrive home there is going to be a terrible smell …show more content…
Music is a metaphor for the feelings that we cannot say in common language. The blues and jazz are made for expressing your confusing emotions through a tone. Hughes uses music with a lot of rhyme, alliteration, and assonance. In line one, there is alliteration between the d’s starting the words droning and drowsy. The long O sounds in droning and drowsy make it seem like a yawning sound which is associated with being tired or weary. In lines six and seven, there are more O’s that make it seem like the lazy sway is more real. Finally in line 23 there is onomatopoeia in “Thump, thump, thump.” Hughes also uses personification as a literary device. Personification is describing a non-human object with qualities of a human. In Lines 10 and 18, the line says, “He made the poor piano moan with melody.” and “I heard that Negro sing, that old piano